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CINCINNATI (AP) -- An 8-year-old boy shown on surveillance video being knocked to the floor unconscious at school two days before he killed himself told staff he had fainted and never said he had been bullied or assaulted, a school spokeswoman said Friday....
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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis greeted pilgrims on Friday evening in Fatima, as they gathered with him for a brief moment of prayerful recollection before the great vigil that would begin with the recitation of the Rosary led by the Holy Father himself. Below, please find the full text of the Holy Father's prepared remarks, in their official English translation.*******************************Greeting of His Holiness Pope FrancisVigil at the Chapel of the Apparitions12 May 2017Dear Pilgrims to Mary and with Mary!Thank you for your welcome and for joining me on this pilgrimage of hope and peace. Even now, I want to assure all of you who are united with me, here or elsewhere, that you have a special place in my heart. I feel that Jesus has entrusted you to me (cf. Jn 21:15-17), and I embrace all of you and commend you to Jesus, “especially those most in need” – as Our Lady taught us to pray (Apparition of July, 1917). May she, the loving and soli...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis led hundreds of thousands of pilgrim faithful in the recitation of the Holy Rosary on Friday evening in Fatima, Portugal, where the Holy Father is on pilgrimage to mark the 100th anniversary of the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin to three shepherd children there.After the Rosary, the Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, celebrated Mass for the faithful.Our own Chris Altieri is in Fatima with Pope Francis, and sent us this report.*******************************************************************The Pope and the pilgrims offered the Joyful Mysteries: the five decades were offered in different languages, beginning with Arabic and then proceeding to a decade in Spanish and Ukrainian, the third in Italian and Chinese, the fourth in English and French, and the fifth in German and Polish.All throughout the devotion, Pope Francis was seated before the statue of Our Lady of Fatima beneath the canopy that covers the Little Chapel of the Apparitions, w...
(Vatican Radio) The Secretary of State of the Holy See, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, celebrated Mass for hundreds of thousands of pilgrims gathered in the great open plaza of the Marian shrine in Fatima on Friday evening, following the recitation of the Holy Rosary with Pope Francis, who is on pilgrimage to the shrine to mark the centenary of the apparitions of Our Lady there. Below, please find the full text of the homily Cardinal Parolin prepared for the occasion, in their official English translation...********************************************************Homily of Cardinal Pietro ParolinVigil Mass, Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima12 May 2017Dear Pilgrims to Fatima,With joy and gratitude, we have gathered at this Shrine that commemorates the apparitions of Our Lady to the three shepherd children. We join the throngs of pilgrims who in these hundred years have come here to show their trust in the Mother of Heaven. We are celebrating this Eucharist in honour...
Fatima, Portugal, May 12, 2017 / 02:47 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis asked pilgrims in Fatima on Friday evening to think about the qualities the Virgin Mary possesses, being careful not to make her into something she is not – especially elevating her mercifulness above that of her Son.“Pilgrims with Mary … but which Mary? A teacher of the spiritual life, the first to follow Jesus on the ‘narrow way’ of the cross by giving us an example, or a Lady ‘unapproachable’ and impossible to imitate?”“The Virgin Mary of the Gospel, venerated by the Church at prayer, or a Mary of our own making: one who restrains the arm of a vengeful God; one sweeter than Jesus the ruthless judge; one more merciful than the Lamb slain for us?” Pope Francis asked May 12.It is through Mary’s cooperation and participation in salvation that she also became a channel of God’s mercy, he explained, praying that with Mary, we might “eac...
Fatima, Portugal, May 12, 2017 / 04:46 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- At a vigil Mass with tens of thousands gathered in the Portugal town of Fatima, Cardinal Pietro Parolin delivered a homily stressing the Virgin Mary’s desire to console all humanity and to have humanity join her in prayer against evil.“In the midst of great concern and uncertainty about the future, what does Fatima ask of us? Perseverance in the consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, shown daily by the recitation of the Rosary.”If wars continue in spite of our prayers, he said, we should persevere in prayer.“Prayer is never useless,” he stressed. “Sooner or later, it will bear fruit. Prayer is capital in the hands of God, he turns it to good account in his times and ways, which are very different from our own.”Cardinal Parolin, who is the Vatican Secretary of State, spoke ahead of the May 13 centenary of the beginning of the Marian apparitions at Fatima. Pope Francis is visit...
By Carol ZimmermannWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Marietta Jaeger-Lane has faced the deathpenalty issue head-on.In 1973,when her 7-year-old daughter was kidnapped during a family camping trip inMontana and murdered by her captor, the mother of five said she would have killed the person who did it withher "bare hands.""Butmy Catholic faith calls me to something different," she said, explaininghow she came to a change her opinion on the death penalty, which she likened toa "wrestling match where God won."Jaeger-Lane,speaking to reporters in a May 11 press call officially launching the National CatholicPledge to End the Death Penalty, said most people have "a gut levelresponse to acts of extreme violence, but when they are educated on the realityof the death penalty, they begin to rethink their position."Shetold reporters that her daughter's kidnapper called her a year to the day ofthe kidnapping and was arrested soon after, but she asked the prosecutor for thealternative sentence of mandatory ...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Junno Arocho EstevesFATIMA, Portugal (CNS) -- Mary's example of believing andfollowing Jesus is what matters most; she cannot be some image "of our ownmaking" who Christians barter with for mercy, Pope Francis said. On the eve of the 100th anniversary of the Marianapparitions at Fatima, the pope asked tens of thousands of pilgrims May 12 toreflect on "which Mary" they choose to venerate, "the virginMary from the Gospel" or "one who restrains the arm of a vengefulGod?"Is the Mary they honor "a woman blessed because shebelieved always and everywhere in God's words or a 'plaster statue' from whomwe beg favors at little cost?" he asked. As the sun set at the shrine dedicated to Our Lady of Fatima,pilgrims held thousands of lit candles, filling the square with a fiery lightbefore Pope Francis led them in praying the rosary. The pope already had visited the shrine earlier in theevening, arriving by helicopter from Monte Real air base. Excited crowds, wavingflags ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The state's top prosecutor on Friday charged a speeding Amtrak engineer with causing a catastrophe, involuntary manslaughter and other crimes in a 2015 derailment that came after he accelerated to 106 mph on a 50 mph curve....
